INTRADA Announces Pino Donaggio's DEJA VU

Roger Feigelson · **Joined:** Sat Nov 19, 2005 3:47 pm **Posts:** 3415

INTRADA Announces

DEJA VU
Composed by PINO DONAGGIO
INTRADA Special Collection Volume 175

Déjà Vu (1985) finds veteran composer Pino Donaggio working with his signature vernacular of thrills and suspense. Tense and frightening string figures, jolting brass stings, numerous elements of murder and suspense plus an expressive love theme at the center are all on display. Déjà Vu gave Donaggio the opportunity to brew this rich assemblage of musical motifs, themes, and styles, kicking off with a ballet set pieces which afforded him the pleasure of (in his words) “wearing his Tchaikovsky hat,” eliciting an original overture that holds its own against comparable work by the Russian master. The story’s central romance gets a tender, pining love theme, to which Donaggio gives generous treatment throughout the score—varying it for respective variations in mood, location, and time period. Suspense, supernatural thrills, and chilling nightmare sequences find Donaggio at his snaky and dissonant best, offering everything
from quiet Herrmannesque passages to outright horror. As if that weren’t enough, Donaggio composed a lineup of lyrical, original source cues for scenes set in the past. The resulting score is a full blend of the composer’s many talents, and a sumptuous banquet for the listener.

In Déjà Vu, Greg Thomas (Nigel Terry) and his wife Maggie (Jaclyn Smith) attend an old film starring ballerina Brooke Ashley (also Smith), Greg becomes bewitched by the dancer— who incites in him mysterious flashes and dreams of a former life—and he decides to write a screenplay based on her life and tragic death. In order to research Brooke’s life—and chase down the reasons for his unshakable déjà vu—he locates Madame Olga Nabokova (Shelley Winters), a psychic who was close to the dancer in her prime. Through hypnotism, Greg reenters memories of a previous life and as he hops back and forth between lives, his contemporary life is slowly invaded by a threatening presence...

This release is limited to 1000 units.

INTRADA Special Collection Vol. 175
Retail Price: $19.99
AVAILABLE NOW
For track listing and sound samples, please visit
http://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.7184/.f

Freejack · **Posted:** Mon Jul 11, 2011 4:35 pm

I think I'll take my chances with The Donaggio.

Track 2 Modern Love Theme reminds me of Donaggio's THE FAN.
and I loved the track 21, Nightmare music No 1.

Nice release Intrada gang.

*note: where's the intrada logo on the cover?

redokt64 · **Posted:** Mon Jul 11, 2011 4:36 pm

Thanks Intrada... I wasted no time ordering this one... You all ROCK!

Roger Feigelson · **Joined:** Sat Nov 19, 2005 3:47 pm **Posts:** 3415

Freejack · **Posted:** Mon Jul 11, 2011 5:04 pm

Azella · **Posted:** Mon Jul 11, 2011 6:47 pm

Wow! Great CD. But I'm sorry to see the Intrada header on the CD go; does that mean we will not see it anymore on all future releases?

GoblinScore · **Joined:** Thu Dec 15, 2005 10:44 pm **Posts:** 682

Good on' ya mates, thanks for doing this, getting this little sleeper gem
the recognition it deserves....more importantly, I guess a title RIGHT
for once! So now I'm like 1 for 15566 I think?

Good show, can't wait to hear it, gracias my hamster breathen!

Freejack · **Posted:** Tue Jul 12, 2011 7:23 am

I knew I had heard that Modern Love Theme somewhere else. :wink:

It starts up the trailer for another MGM film namely INVASION U.S.A. (1985). :mrgreen:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IMesJgw3oU

CocoNut Joe · **Posted:** Tue Jul 12, 2011 9:08 am

Jesus Christ and all else...I totally forgot that intrada had a Donaggio in the can this morning (that´s what you get when having vacation

)
Oh well, ordered now and everything is allright...another CD that helps me when I don´t want to sleep

Thank you Roger & Co (and take care with the booze man :mrgreen:

)

and Freejack..Oh my GOD :roll:

WorkingWithKnives · **Posted:** Tue Jul 12, 2011 12:31 pm

Too bad you guys are putting the kibosh on the Intrada logo at the top of the discs.

Roger Feigelson · **Joined:** Sat Nov 19, 2005 3:47 pm **Posts:** 3415

CocoNut Joe · **Posted:** Tue Jul 12, 2011 1:23 pm

Be proud of your logo Roger, don´t let it RIP

WorkingWithKnives · **Posted:** Tue Jul 12, 2011 1:31 pm

Azella · **Posted:** Tue Jul 12, 2011 6:17 pm

Jake Scully · **Joined:** Wed Jan 14, 2009 1:45 am **Posts:** 31

Ordered! Thanks for the cool glass of Pino!

Any chance of releasing 'The Fan'?

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